Alegres Quotes & Sayings

Increase your vision of achievement simply by raising your goals ... — Stephen Richards

You know, Alexia started, "I will be deeply disappointed if the apocalypse starts in Portsmouth. — Gavin G. Smith

ADVENTURES OF ISABEL
Isabel — Ogden Nash

The dark was hissing and hot and hard with a jagged bone, a cold brutal bone, and hips packed tight. The dark wasn't just at night. The dark was any time, any place; you open your eyes and the dark is there, right up against you, pressing. You can't see anything and you don't know any names, not who they are or the names for what they do ... — Andrea Dworkin

When the evil deed, after it has become known, brings sorrow to the fool, then it destroys his bright lot, nay, it cleaves his head. — Max Muller

There's nothing but quarreling with the women; it's my belief they like it better than victuals and drink. — Fanny Burney

Am I bossy? Absolutely. I don't like to lose, and if I'm told 'no,' then I find another way to get my 'yes.' But I'm a loyal person. — Naomi Campbell

It was amazing how small you could feel when someone wouldn't so much as look at you. — Alexandra Bracken

Wall Street has come a long way from the insider-dominated world that was blown apart by the Great Depression. — James Surowiecki

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up. — Babe Ruth

As the sociologist Daniel Bell later observed, Oppenheimer's ordeal signified that the postwar "messianic role of the scientists" was now at an end. — Kai Bird

A modest ring at the bell at length allayed her fears, and Miss Benton, hurrying into her own room and shutting herself up, in order that she might preserve that appearance of being taken by surprise which is so essential to the polite reception of visitors, awaited their coming with a smiling countenance. — Charles Dickens

The traveler that resolutely follows a rough and winding path will sooner reach the end of his journey than he that is always changing his direction, and wastes the hour of daylight in looking for smoother ground and shorter passages. — Samuel Johnson